Is this shitty?

Idk my kitchen doubles as my “dining room” and isn’t even fully seperated from my living room, so maybe I’m biased.

I know what you mean. Just try to embrace the anger when you can, and keep people informed about what is actually going on. It’s a war of WASPY Passive Aggression. It’s ok to get exhausted and take a break, but don’t get complacent and accept it as normal.

That’s just a good rule of thumb for life in general, even outside of the context of an authoritarian government trying to use double speak to maintain and gain control instead of just saying the quiet part out loud.

No they are blaming other people for the misspent funds she was in charge of for 4/5 years. Firing doctors and trying to say Louisiana proves why Medicaid is unsustainable since no doctors will accept it (bc they fired them all).

They accidentally revealed they held a secret meeting with a current employee of a private government contract company who was formerly a Louisiana state employee/executive director of Medicaid

No one involved in LA DOGE is facing any legal repercussions for some odd reason 🤷‍♀️

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA) would be the one to bring charges for violation of the meeting law, but they’re now partnered with LA DOGE and helping the governor with his own Robespierre-like reign of terror, except the cuts are all budget related instead of guillotine (at least for now).

So, now the LLA only cares about enforcing transparency laws for other people.

I’m not a journalist, but for some reason I’m the only one who is trying to bring attention to the fact that this person worked for LDH in charge of this program that is being accused of fraud by the LLA for 4 of the 5 years..

I think journalists are being intimidated and/or information is being suppressed all over the state. There is some really insane shit happening here.

Since the whole country is on fire though, nobody seems to really have the time to notice or care, but it does seem like the Governor of Louisiana is allowing us to serve as a bit of a guinea pig for all of Trump’s authoritarian policy before he unleashes it on a larger scale to the rest of the country.

Also the Heritage Foundation is paying to run local tv ads promoting Gov Landry’s policies.

TLDR II: Even if nothing happens to these corrupt pieces of shit, they’re destroying my home and my country and I’m not going to just shut up and be quiet about it. If they didn’t care they wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep information suppressed while paying so much money to try and spread their own disinformation.

Gov Landry issued an executive order in December of 2024, creating his DOGE inspired taskforce. The taskforce was modeled after federal DOGE to investigate fraud/wasteful government spending and hold the government accountable.

The group met in secret at least twice, violating public meeting transparency laws.

Louisiana Senator Blake Miguez posted this photo to his Facebook, with the caption “It’s time to cut wasteful spending.” The photo shows one meeting took place in the dining room of the governor’s mansion.

The taskforce is required by law to: advertise when and where it will meet, allow the public a chance to speak at meeting, and record meeting minutes that will become publicly available. They of course didn’t do any of that.

It’s ok though, because as some members have explained, the meetings “weren’t really meetings.” They were just “talking about what they were going to do.” The other meeting took place in the Governor’s suite of offices, where the taskforce heard a sales pitch from federal government contractor, Guidehouse Consulting. They discussed doing a “deep dive,” into Louisiana government spending.

It is a very long and complicated story, but I am trying to keep track of it all here.

TLDR: Turns out the FBI/government contractor LA DOGE met with at one secret meeting was the former executive director of Medicaid for Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), Tera LeBlanc.

Since then, LA DOGE has partnered with the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, and an audit of LDH has accused LDH of misspending Medicaid funds over a 5 year period. It turns out LeBlanc was in charge of that program for 4 of the 5 years, before leaving LDH to work for Guidehouse Consulting group.

Sure would be nice to have a public record/meeting minutes to know what was discussed in those meetings that weren’t really meetings.